The timeline is very tight, so we need to be focusing our minds and doing things quickly
The project is about tools... refining tools for FRA, VCA, RMA and FTP
Doing some value chain analysis and also interested in feed within the chain (will be developing a database for this)
There's an emphasis on sheep in this project – it fits into the wider CGIAR project 'CRP 3.7' (milk, meat & fish for and by the poor)
Secondary database assessment on the Menz area
Synthesis workshop in late May
This is a small project. Because it’s small, and because it’s a scoping project, the hope is to link in with larger initiatives
Larger initiatives include: (a) Gates funded East Africa Dairy Development project (EADD) running for the last 4 years and now expanding into Ethiopia and Tanzania – “EADD II” (b) Livestock Growth Program (c) CIDA-funded Livestock Value Chain Enhancement project (LIVES) (e) Market-linked Innovation for Dairy Development program (MIDD) and all of these projects could use simple, rapid tools.
This is a scoping study, which might yet become a bigger initiative
Evolving the objective means putting boundaries around ambitions because of the size of project and time available
Developing three refined tools – Value Chain Assessment (VCA), Feed Asssessment Tool (FEAST), Feed Tech Prioritization (Techfit)
FEAST is a PRA exercise involving structured questions and a quantitative assessment to support the first step
Techfit was developed last year at a workshop in India and is less developed that FEAST (through this workshop we are hoping to develop it further)
Techfit --
Is feed the issue?
All possible feed technologies (74)
'Discussion tools' were popular at one stage, but are not very effective.
Often tools are applied only by researchers, but need be applied by a consortium of people – i.e. researchers and those who work in the development sector
Gap = How can we use these tools to initiate action, not just for diagnosis, but to lead to some change
Deliverables
Hoping to run trainings and begin field testings in March
Challenging meeting key deadlines
Light not extensive fieldwork
Light not lengthy reports
Need to match ambitions to the amount of time available
"We need simple but effective tools."
Fodder and feed in livestock value chains in Ethiopia – trends and prospects
An introduction to the project by Alan Duncan, ILRI
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Why are we here?
Techfit --
Deliverables